Family

“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”                 ― Pope John Paul II ...

"Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew." - Alice Miller ...

"Your life is defined by your fatherly and motherly desire and duty to give your children the best: a loving home, an upbring­ing, a healthy and positive start on the road of life, now and for eternity. Above all, through ...

"I spent a week at a Buddhist monastic retreat, where I sat silently for hours at a time in an uncomfortable position trying to shatter my ego. Why bother? Two minutes with my wife and kids does the same thing." ...

"The world talks to the mind. Parents speak more intimately, they talk to the heart."             - Haim Ginott ...

"Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum ...

"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller ...

"Friends will come and go but family remains forever." ...

"You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around -- and why his parents will always wave back."       - William D. Tammeus ...

"If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of ...